Hi Jay,

      You can access the template add row via the TemplateAddRow property on the rows collection. So for the root level rows, it would go something like this:

    
            this.ultraGrid1.ActiveCell = this.ultraGrid1.Rows.TemplateAddRow.Cells[0];
            this.ultraGrid1.PerformAction(UltraGridAction.EnterEditMode);

    Bear in mind that you cannot set focus to any control inside events that fire before the form paints, like Form_Load. So this code won't work there. If you want to do this initially when your form is first displayed, you can probably do it by uing BeginInvoke to call a method, rather than calling the code directly.